Andraž Repar

Andraž Repar

Andraž Repar is the Quality Manager at Iolar. While studying at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana, he started working part-time at Iolar. Over the next few years, he worked on a variety of translation projects as a translator and reviser and he joined the Iolar team full-time in 2011. In addition to quality management, he is also translating and revising as well as researching new trends in the translation industry, such as machine translation and post-editing.

Machine translation and post-editing have been the talk of the town in the translation industry for several years now. It would appear that everyone wants to get on the MT train – LSPs are frantically looking for domain-specific data, training new engines or writing post-editing guidelines. But sometimes it appears that a crucial voice is missing. What is the role of the translator in this process? Are translators merely the final piece of the MT puzzle resigned to missing out on any potential benefits of MT and condemned to occasional rants on various internet forums? In this presentation, we will take a look at machine translation and post-editing from a translator’s point of view. We will assess the current state of MT on the market, explore post-editing guidelines and techniques and discover tools and services that allow individual translators to take advantage of MT.